| outbalance | (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outweigh, overbalance, preponderate |
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| outdistance | (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: distance, outstrip |
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| outface | (verb) overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring | Synonyms: outstare, stare down |
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| outpace | (verb) surpass in speed | - |
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| outsource | (verb) obtain goods or services from an outside supplier; to contract work out | - |
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| overbalance | (verb) cause to be off balance | - |
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| (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, preponderate |
| overprice | (verb) price excessively high | - |
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| overproduce | (verb) produce in excess; produce more than needed or wanted | - |
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| (verb) produce in excess | - |
| pace | (verb) measure (distances) by pacing | Synonyms: step |
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| (verb) regulate or set the pace of | - |
| (verb) walk with slow or fast paces | - |
| (verb) go at a pace | - |
| phosphoresce | (verb) to exhibit phosphorescence | - |
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| piece | (verb) repair by adding pieces | Synonyms: patch |
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| (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: nibble, pick |
| (verb) join during spinning | - |
| (verb) to join or unite the pieces of | Synonyms: patch |
| (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: assemble, put together, set up, tack, tack together |
| pierce | (verb) make a hole into | - |
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| (verb) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: thrust |
| (verb) cut or make a way through | - |
| (verb) move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply | - |
| (verb) sound sharply or shrilly | - |
| place | (verb) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something | Synonyms: identify |
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| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, range, rank, rate |
| (verb) take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal | Synonyms: come in, come out |
| (verb) estimate | Synonyms: put, set |
| (verb) sing a note with the correct pitch | - |
| (verb) to arrange for | - |
| (verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: post, send, station |
| (verb) finish second or better in a horse or dog race | - |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, point, target |
| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, pose, position, put, set |
| (verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, localize, set |
| (verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: locate, site |
| (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, invest, put |
| (verb) assign to (a job or a home) | - |
| (verb) place somebody in a particular situation or location | - |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localise, localize |
| police | (verb) maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol | Synonyms: patrol |
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| poultice | (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: plaster |
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| pounce | (verb) move down on as if in an attack | Synonyms: swoop |
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| practice | (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practise |
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| (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practise, rehearse |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: do, exercise, practise |
| (verb) avail oneself to | Synonyms: apply, use |
| (verb) engage in or perform | Synonyms: commit |
| prance | (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
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| (verb) ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward | - |
| (verb) cause (a horse) to bound spring forward | - |
| (verb) spring forward on the hind legs | - |
| preface | (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, precede, premise |
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| prejudice | (verb) influence (somebody's) opinion in advance | Synonyms: prepossess |
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| (verb) disadvantage by prejudice | - |
| price | (verb) ascertain or learn the price of | - |
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| (verb) determine the price of | - |
| produce | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, develop, get, grow |
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| (verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: create, make |
| (verb) bring forth or yield | Synonyms: bring forth |
| (verb) cause to happen, occur or exist | Synonyms: bring about, give rise |
| (verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: farm, grow, raise |
| (verb) bring onto the market or release | Synonyms: bring on, bring out |
| (verb) bring out for display | Synonyms: bring forth |
| pronounce | (verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: judge, label |
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| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, enunciate, say, sound out |
| pumice | (verb) rub with pumice, in order to clean or to smoothen | - |
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| quiesce | (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiet, quiet down, quieten |
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| race | (verb) compete in a race | Synonyms: run |
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| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
| (verb) cause to move fast or to rush or race | Synonyms: rush |
| (verb) to work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others | - |
| recommence | (verb) begin again | - |
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| (verb) cause to start anew | - |
| recrudesce | (verb) become raw or open | Synonyms: break out, erupt |
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| (verb) happen | Synonyms: break, develop |
| reduce | (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin |
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| (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, trim, trim back, trim down |
| (verb) narrow or limit | Synonyms: tighten |
| (verb) cook until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate |
| (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidise, deoxidize |
| (verb) make smaller | Synonyms: scale down |
| (verb) reduce in size; reduce physically | Synonyms: shrink |
| (verb) make less complex | - |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, shorten |
| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, dilute, thin, thin out |
| (verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate, decoct |
| (verb) be the essential element | Synonyms: boil down, come down |
| (verb) destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it | - |
| (verb) undergo meiosis | - |
| (verb) reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site | - |
| (verb) lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation | - |
| (verb) lessen and make more modest | - |
| (verb) simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another | - |
| (verb) bring to humbler or weaker state or condition | - |
| (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, repress, subdue, subjugate |
| reenforce | (verb) make stronger | Synonyms: reinforce |
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| reface | (verb) put a new facing on (a garment) | - |
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| (verb) provide with a new facing | - |
| reference | (verb) refer to | Synonyms: cite |
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| refinance | (verb) renew the financing of | - |
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| reinforce | (verb) make stronger | Synonyms: reenforce |
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| (verb) strengthen and support with rewards | Synonyms: reward |
| reintroduce | (verb) introduce anew | Synonyms: re-introduce |
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| rejoice | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, jubilate, triumph |
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| (verb) feel happiness or joy | Synonyms: joy |
| (verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: triumph, wallow |
| relace | (verb) lace again | - |
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| reminisce | (verb) recall the past | - |
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| renounce | (verb) cast off | Synonyms: disown, repudiate |
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| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, quit, relinquish |
| (verb) leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily | Synonyms: give up, resign, vacate |
| (verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations | Synonyms: abdicate |
| replace | (verb) substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected) | - |
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| (verb) put something back where it belongs | Synonyms: put back |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, interchange, substitute |
| (verb) take the place or move into the position of | Synonyms: supersede, supervene upon, supplant |
| reproduce | (verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: multiply, procreate |
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| (verb) repeat after memorization | Synonyms: regurgitate |
| (verb) make a copy or equivalent of | - |
| (verb) recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc. | - |
| resurface | (verb) to come out of obscurity or hiding | - |
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| (verb) cover with a new surface | - |
| (verb) reappear on the surface | - |
| retrace | (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: construct, reconstruct |
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| (verb) to go back over again | Synonyms: trace |
| reverence | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, revere, venerate |
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| rice | (verb) sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice | - |
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| romance | (verb) tell romantic or exaggerated lies | - |
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| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander |
| (verb) have a love affair with | - |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: court, solicit, woo |
| sacrifice | (verb) kill or destroy | - |
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| (verb) endure the loss of | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals | - |
| (verb) sell at a loss | - |
| satisfice | (verb) decide on and pursue a course of action satisfying the minimum requirements to achieve a goal | Synonyms: satisfise |
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| sauce | (verb) add zest or flavor to, make more interesting | - |
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| (verb) dress (food) with a relish | - |
| (verb) behave saucily or impudently towards | - |
| seduce | (verb) lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct | - |
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| (verb) induce to have sex | Synonyms: make, score |
| senesce | (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, maturate, mature |
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| sentence | (verb) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law | Synonyms: condemn, doom |
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| sequence | (verb) arrange in a sequence | - |
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| (verb) determine the order of constituents in | - |
| service | (verb) make fit for use | - |
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| (verb) mate with | Synonyms: serve |
| (verb) be used by; as of a utility | Synonyms: serve |
| silence | (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, still |
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| (verb) keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure | - |
| slice | (verb) hit a ball so that it causes a backspin | - |
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| (verb) cut into slices | Synonyms: slice up |
| (verb) make a clean cut through | Synonyms: slit |
| (verb) hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction | - |
| sluice | (verb) irrigate with water from a sluice | Synonyms: flush |
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| (verb) draw through a sluice | - |
| (verb) transport in or send down a sluice | - |
| (verb) pour as if from a sluice | Synonyms: sluice down |
| solace | (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: comfort, console, soothe |
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| source | (verb) specify the origin of | - |
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| (verb) get (a product) from another country or business | - |
| space | (verb) place at intervals | - |
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| spice | (verb) make more interesting or flavorful | Synonyms: spice up |
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| (verb) add herbs or spices to | Synonyms: spice up, zest |
| splice | (verb) join by interweaving strands | - |
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| (verb) join the ends of | - |
| (verb) join together so as to form new genetic combinations | - |
| (verb) perform a marriage ceremony | Synonyms: marry, tie, wed |
| spruce | (verb) dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spruce up |
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| (verb) make neat, smart, or trim | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce up, titivate, tittivate |
| suffice | (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: answer, do, serve |
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| surface | (verb) appear or become visible; make a showing | Synonyms: come on, come out, show up, turn up |
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| (verb) put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface | Synonyms: coat |
| (verb) come to the surface | Synonyms: come up, rise, rise up |
| tapdance | (verb) dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes | Synonyms: tap |
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| terrace | (verb) make into terraces as for cultivation | - |
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| (verb) provide (a house) with a terrace | Synonyms: terrasse |
| trace | (verb) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something | Synonyms: follow |
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| (verb) read with difficulty | Synonyms: decipher |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, describe, draw, line |
| (verb) copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of | - |
| (verb) pursue or chase relentlessly | Synonyms: hound, hunt |
| (verb) to go back over again | Synonyms: retrace |
| (verb) make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along | - |
| (verb) discover traces of | - |
| traduce | (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: badmouth, drag through the mud, malign |
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| trance | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate |
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| transduce | (verb) cause transduction (of energy forms) | - |
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| trice | (verb) hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope | Synonyms: trice up |
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| (verb) raise with a line | Synonyms: trice up |
| trounce | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task |
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| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, vanquish |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, welt, whip |
| tumesce | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy |
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| unbalance | (verb) derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane | Synonyms: derange |
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| (verb) throw out of balance or equilibrium | - |
| unbrace | (verb) remove a brace or braces from | - |
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| (verb) remove from tension | - |
| (verb) undo the ties of | Synonyms: unlace, untie |
| underprice | (verb) sell at artificially low prices | Synonyms: dump |
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| underproduce | (verb) produce below capacity or demand | - |
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| unlace | (verb) undo the ties of | Synonyms: unbrace, untie |
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| voice | (verb) give voice to | - |
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| (verb) utter with vibrating vocal chords | Synonyms: sound, vocalise, vocalize |
| wince | (verb) make a face indicating disgust or dislike | - |
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| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch |